Presentation for Barcelona Perl Mongers about Perl and Amazon Web Services

1. Perl and AWS
Jose Luis Martinez
Perl Mongers BCN

2. AWS
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Amazon Web Services
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Not only EC2 (virtual machines)
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~30 services
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ALL services are manageable from an API
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Programmers wet dream :p
APIs are REST based
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Queues, Databases, Load Balancers, Datawarehouses, MapReduce Clusters
: )________________________
The programmable datacenter

3. Perl
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Do I have to introduce Perl?

4. Perl && AWS

5. Perl && AWS
Bad news
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No oficial SDK
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Ruby, PHP, Python (started as
community), JS, .Net, Java

6. Perl && AWS
Good news
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CPAN

7. AWS && Perl
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We have LOTS of CPAN Support for different services
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Net::AWS::SES
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Net::Amazon::S3::Tools
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AWS::CliWrapper
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Net::S3
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AWS::CloudFront
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VM::EC2

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SimpleDB::Client
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Net::Amazon::DynamoDB
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Net::Amazon::R53
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Net::Amazon::EC2
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Amazon::SQS::Simple
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Net::Amazon::HadoopEC2
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Furl::S3
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Net::Amazon::S3::Acl
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Net::Amazon::EMR

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Amazon::SQS::ProducerConsumer
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WebService::Amazon::Route53
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Amazon::SNS
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Net::Amazon::Glacier
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Net::Amazon::EMR
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AWS::CloudFront

10. Perl && AWS
Bad news
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Inconsistencies (method naming)
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Nearly no STS Support
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Arbitrary Defaults
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eu-west-1?
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us-east-1?
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Not up to date (last API version)
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Some are well architected. So
easily extended.

11. Nothing for…
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IAM
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CloudFormation
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SWF
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RedShift
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DataPipeline
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CloudSearch
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Elasticache
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Elastic Beanstalk
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…

12. What if we create an SDK
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Lots of work…
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Don’t think anybody is up to hand-coding all the APIs
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So lets parse documentation?
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No
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Amazon doesn’t publish spec
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Introspect other SDK objects and generate code from that
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JS SDK has data-structures defining the APIs
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Bingo! Execute JS and generate Perl code!
Boto and PHP2
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While doing that
Even better. Have to do a proof of concept
So lets “rob” (in an open source fashion )

13. There’s more work…
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Calling schemes
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9 json
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19 query (done! needs testing!!!)
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2 rest-json
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4 rest-xml
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Signers
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HTTP library agnostic (so people can go async)
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Documentation
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Autogenerated too, please!

14. Want to help?
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Fork and hack on it https://github.com/pplu/aws-sdk-perl